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MaskDiME: Adaptive Masked Diffusion for Precise and Efficient Visual Counterfactual Explanations

Changlu Guo , Anders Nymark Christensen , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Morten Rieger Hannemose
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MaskDiME uses adaptive masking to restrict diffusion sampling to decision-relevant image regions, generating visual counterfactual explanations over 30 times faster than baselines while preserving quality.

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Visual counterfactual explanations identify the smallest semantic changes to an input image that would flip a deep model's prediction, offering interpretable insights into its decision process. Prior diffusion-based approaches for creating these explanations tend to be slow, require many sampling steps, and struggle to localize modifications precisely without artifacts. MaskDiME addresses this by adaptively generating masks that focus the diffusion process only on regions that influence the model's output. The resulting training-free framework produces localized, semantically consistent counterfactuals at high fidelity. Across five diverse benchmark datasets the method matches or exceeds existing performance while running inference more than 30 times faster than the prior baseline.

Core claim

MaskDiME is a training-free diffusion framework that adaptively restricts sampling to decision-relevant regions through localized masking, thereby achieving both spatial precision in the modified areas and semantic consistency in the generated counterfactual images.

What carries the argument

Adaptive mask that restricts diffusion sampling to decision-relevant regions of the input image.

Load-bearing premise

That adaptively restricting diffusion sampling to decision-relevant regions will reliably produce semantically consistent counterfactuals without introducing artifacts or requiring task-specific tuning.

What would settle it

A side-by-side evaluation on one of the five benchmarks where MaskDiME produces visible artifacts or fails to flip the target prediction while the baseline succeeds with clean edits.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2602.18792 by Anders Bjorholm Dahl, Anders Nymark Christensen, Changlu Guo, Morten Rieger Hannemose.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Previous methods such as DiME [20] and FastDiME [45] produce global or scattered edits, whereas our MaskDiME achieves localized, decision-relevant modifications consistent with the classifier’s saliency map, computed via SmoothGrad [39]. high-quality counterfactuals remains a challenging task. Recently, diffusion models [16] have demonstrated remark￾able ability in producing visually realistic and semanti￾… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of MaskDiME. We illustrate a complete counterfactual generation process (No Smile → Smile) with τ = 60, meaning that the diffusion starts from z60 = ˜z60 and x60 = x, where zt and xt denote the noisy and clean images at step t, respectively , and z˜t is obtained from the original forward diffusion process (Eq. (1)) . Each step applies Gradient-Guided Denoising, modeled as N [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figur… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Heatmap visualization of diffusion trajectories with dif [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison of methods on the CelebA smile attribute by FID (from Tab. 1), runtime (batch size = 5). The area of the circles indicates the peak GPU memory allocated during the sampling process. MaskDiME is significantly faster than previous methods, while also achieving the lowest FID, and sustaining low GPU us￾age—approximately one-tenth of that required by ACE and RCSB. See Supplementary Tab. 7 for quanti… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Ablation study on the No Smile → Smile sample of CelebA. Increasing the gradient scaling (s) and introducing Adap￾tive Dual-mask (M) progressively improve MaskDiME’s results, localizing edits to decision-relevant regions and yielding realistic, semantically consistent counterfactuals [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Visual counterfactual explanations aim to reveal the minimal semantic modifications that can alter a model's prediction, providing causal and interpretable insights into deep neural networks. However, existing diffusion-based counterfactual generation methods are often computationally expensive, slow to sample, and imprecise in localizing the modified regions. To address these limitations, we propose MaskDiME, a simple, fast, yet effective diffusion framework that unifies semantic consistency and spatial precision through localized sampling. Our approach adaptively focuses on decision-relevant regions to achieve localized and semantically consistent counterfactual generation while preserving high image fidelity. Our training-free framework, MaskDiME, performs inference over 30x faster than the baseline and achieves comparable or state-of-the-art performance across five benchmark datasets spanning diverse visual domains, establishing a practical and generalizable solution for efficient counterfactual explanation.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes MaskDiME, a training-free adaptive masked diffusion framework for visual counterfactual explanations. It adaptively restricts diffusion sampling to decision-relevant image regions (via attributions or attention) to produce localized, semantically consistent counterfactuals while claiming >30x inference speedup over baselines and comparable or SOTA performance on five benchmark datasets spanning diverse visual domains.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold with proper validation, the work would provide a practical efficiency gain for diffusion-based counterfactual methods in computer vision, addressing a key computational barrier without requiring retraining. The training-free nature and focus on spatial precision are notable strengths that could support broader use in interpretability pipelines.

major comments (3)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2 (Adaptive Mask Generation): The central claim that the mask 'precisely delineates regions whose modification suffices to flip the prediction' is load-bearing, yet the manuscript provides no explicit criterion or ablation for the attribution threshold or attention cutoff used to define the mask; without this, it is unclear whether the method reliably avoids the skeptic's concern of incomplete flips or boundary artifacts in the inpainting step.
  2. [§4.3, Table 3] §4.3, Table 3 (Quantitative Results): The reported 30x speedup and SOTA-comparable metrics lack error bars, run counts, or statistical tests (e.g., paired t-tests across seeds); this undermines assessment of whether the efficiency and performance gains are robust across the five datasets rather than dataset-specific.
  3. [§4.1] §4.1 (Experimental Setup): The choice of baseline diffusion counterfactual methods and the exact diffusion sampling schedule (e.g., number of steps before/after masking) are not compared in an ablation that isolates the contribution of the adaptive mask versus standard masked diffusion; this makes it difficult to attribute the speedup and precision gains specifically to the proposed mechanism.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figure 2] Figure 2 caption: The visual examples would benefit from explicit annotation of the mask boundaries overlaid on the original image to allow readers to assess localization quality directly.
  2. [§2] §2 (Related Work): The discussion of prior diffusion-based counterfactual methods omits recent works on guided diffusion for editing (e.g., those using classifier-free guidance); adding these would strengthen the positioning of MaskDiME.

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment below with clarifications and proposed revisions to improve the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Adaptive Mask Generation): The central claim that the mask 'precisely delineates regions whose modification suffices to flip the prediction' is load-bearing, yet the manuscript provides no explicit criterion or ablation for the attribution threshold or attention cutoff used to define the mask; without this, it is unclear whether the method reliably avoids the skeptic's concern of incomplete flips or boundary artifacts in the inpainting step.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit criterion and supporting ablation are necessary to substantiate the mask's precision and to mitigate concerns about incomplete flips or inpainting artifacts. In the submitted manuscript, the adaptive mask is generated by computing attribution maps via Integrated Gradients and thresholding at the 75th percentile of positive scores to retain the most decision-relevant regions. To address this comment directly, we will add a new ablation subsection in §3.2 (and corresponding results in §4) that varies the percentile threshold across {50, 65, 75, 85} and reports the resulting prediction-flip success rate, LPIPS semantic consistency, and visual boundary artifacts. This will demonstrate the robustness of the chosen operating point while clarifying the exact procedure. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4.3, Table 3] §4.3, Table 3 (Quantitative Results): The reported 30x speedup and SOTA-comparable metrics lack error bars, run counts, or statistical tests (e.g., paired t-tests across seeds); this undermines assessment of whether the efficiency and performance gains are robust across the five datasets rather than dataset-specific.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the lack of variance estimates and statistical tests weakens the strength of the efficiency and performance claims. In the revised manuscript we will re-run all experiments on the five datasets using five independent random seeds, report mean ± standard deviation for every metric (including wall-clock inference time), and add paired t-tests (with p-values) comparing MaskDiME against each baseline. These additions will be incorporated into Table 3 and the accompanying text in §4.3. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4.1] §4.1 (Experimental Setup): The choice of baseline diffusion counterfactual methods and the exact diffusion sampling schedule (e.g., number of steps before/after masking) are not compared in an ablation that isolates the contribution of the adaptive mask versus standard masked diffusion; this makes it difficult to attribute the speedup and precision gains specifically to the proposed mechanism.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit ablation isolating the adaptive mask is required to attribute gains precisely. While the current baselines include full diffusion and non-adaptive masked diffusion, we will insert a new controlled ablation in §4.1 that compares three variants on the same sampling schedule (50 total DDIM steps, masking applied after the first 10 steps): (i) standard full diffusion, (ii) masked diffusion with a static (non-adaptive) mask of equivalent area, and (iii) our adaptive masked diffusion. Results will quantify the incremental benefit of adaptivity on both speedup and localization metrics, with the exact schedule parameters stated explicitly. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical method without self-referential derivations

full rationale

The paper introduces MaskDiME as a training-free adaptive masked diffusion framework for visual counterfactuals. Claims of 30x faster inference and comparable/SOTA performance are presented as empirical outcomes from evaluations on five benchmark datasets, not as mathematical reductions or predictions derived from fitted parameters. No equations, self-definitional loops, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the abstract or described method that would make results equivalent to inputs by construction. The adaptive masking for localized sampling is a proposed heuristic unification of semantic consistency and spatial precision, but remains externally falsifiable via image fidelity and prediction-flip metrics without reducing to prior author work by definition. This is the common case of a self-contained applied method paper.

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Abstract supplies no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; full paper would be required to audit any implicit assumptions about mask adaptivity or diffusion priors.

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